Shock Troops of The Right Wing

[G_j]

David Morris, AlterNet
Censoring television movies, overturning court decisions, halting construction projects -- just what will conservatives do next?

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17143

Three events in the past two weeks have demonstrated how frighteningly effective and coordinated the right-wing coalition of church, state and ground-level shock troops has become.

Exhibit A, of course, is the decision by CBS not to show its biographical mini-series about Ronald Reagan on network television. From the time the New York Times first reported on the upcoming series, only 13 days elapsed until the right wing forced CBS to capitulate. The coalition included leaders of the Republican Party, conservative television and radio hosts, and individual activists.

The uproar occurred even though, according to the Times' reading of the final script, the movie "give(s) Mr. Reagan most of the credit for ending the cold war and paints him as an exceptionally gifted politician and a moral man who stuck to his beliefs, often against his advisers' urgings ."

But the right believed the script was insufficiently worshipful. CBS responded by shifting the mini-series to cable, thereby reducing by 70 percent the number of households able to watch it. That still might not satisfy the right. In any case, we can be assured that if it airs on Showtime mention of possible flaws in Reagan's performance or character will be minimized, if not excised completely.
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[Kolesar]

1. I hope they choke on their hubris

The Bush* administration is about to come apart at the seams. The GOP message-builders have this incredible success rate at repackaging bad ideas and Americans and getting it out successfully in the(ir) press. If the public starts showing some interest and realizing they have been had, the right will fail.

[dennis4868]

2. It's incredible....

we have a pResident who has lied us into war and leaked the name of an undercover CIA agent who's life is not in jeapordy but what bothers the Repubs more than anything is a miniseries about Reagan that is not 10000000% worshipful! This is how shallow these people are.

[G_j]

3. "insufficiently worshipful"

LOL..

& why is it that RW "protesting" often takes on a vibe that feels like intimidation?

[Wapsie B]

4. Intimidation?

You mean like the goon squad in Fla. in '00? Strong-arm tactics in use by the neocons tell me that their leadership is tenuous at best and they know it.

Oh I forgot. It's not intimidation. Only those evil liberals intimidate people. Conservatives only involve themselves in thoughtfull debate and discussion. They're deeper intellectually. Dick Armey said so.

/sarasm

[G_j]

5. yep, just like those 'astro-turf thugs'

in FL.
Nothing but a bunch of goons.